Welcome to week 4! This is the last week of #DigPINS, though we hope, not our last week learning together. Everything you read below are just my thoughts on the topics / questions that were brought up, so I wrote this as a blog post …
Category: Pedagogy
Using Google Tools to Promote Academic Integrity and Knowledge of Social Science
The Project COME 352: Media Effects is a course focused on the field of media psychology. Within the course, students learn about social scientific research, which also addresses core curriculum goals. One of the key formative assessments in the course is a series of reading …
Reflections of Week 3 (in the middle of Week 4)
Before I was tenured, I distinctly remember having conversations with other untenured colleagues about our reluctance to take risks with innovative teaching. I may have been new to the Faculty Development Committee and our discussion was usually about the risk/reward of implementing new pedagogies. Something …
Digital pedagogical communities
I’ve been loving #DigPINS, not only for gaining a different perspective on pedagogy, but also because of how these topics are relevant to my professional research as well. One thing I’ve been researching lately are brand communities, or how people form relationships with other consumers …
Reflecting on Teaching Illustration Online
With grant support from Full Spectrum Learning, this past semester I got to implement some of the lessons and ideas of #DigPINS when I taught a Special Topics course in Illustration. The class was truly special for me in a number of ways: 1) it …
Digital Pedagogy
As a graduate student, I was a Teaching Assistant for a Latin American History course taught entirely online, this experience changed my life. The professor and TA’s not only engaged in online discussions with students but went beyond by creating interactive assignments and activities. This …
Reflections on Digital Pedagogy and Digital Spaces
Disclaimer: I am not sure if these examples count as digital projects, but they are what first led me to include more technology in my classes. When I taught high school, I used to have my students make videos to engage with the material that …
A Different Mindset
This week has definitely been the hardest week of DigPINS for me to connect to so far because I do not teach in the traditional sense. The only “teaching” I do consists of me trying to reexplain items that friends and classmates don’t understand from …
My Digital Project Disaster
As soon as I read the prompt for this week’s blog I was re-traumatized by the disaster that was my first digital project. A few years ago, one of my colleagues presented an amazing assignment she created on Google+ and how she had her students …
Salty with a Side of Contemplation
This week I started by reading, “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation” by Anne Helen Petersen. It put me in my current mood (see otter for reference) which has lingered in decreasing intensity throughout the week. I’m glad writing it was therapeutic for you, Anne …
